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e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom The Discover the COSMOS Project is financed by the European Commissions Framework Programme 7 (FP7) under grant agreement no. 283487. Peter Watkins University of Birmingham The World Conference on Physics Education July 1-6, 2012 Istanbul / Turkey

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Science Education in Europe: Challenges & Opportunities Reverse declining student interest in Science Re-imagine the science classroom of tomorrow Realise the potential of eScience for engaging students in scientific inquiry Rocard et al. 2007 Osborne & Dilon 2008

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Discover the Cosmos Contribution To demonstrate how Europes e-infrastructures could provide powerful tools for scaling-up current pilot implementations for effective introduction of eScience in the school curriculum and development of effective outreach programmes.

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Aim I: Community Building TeachersStudentsScientists

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Aim II: Effective Integration Science Education e-Science Activities Research Infrastructures Aim III: Good Practices Roadmap

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From Telescopes to Accelerators 15 partners 9 countries

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e-Infrastructures Particle Physics Astronomy www.discoverthecosmos.eu LHCCMS ATLAS Gaia The Faulkes Telescope The Liverpool Telescope

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e-Science Applications Particle Physics Astronomy www.discoverthecosmos.eu LTImage Sun for All SalsaJ HYPATIA MINERVA AMELIA

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Where to find interesting stuff? http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/microcosm/P10/german/welcome.html

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Discover the COSMOS Portal http://portal.discoverthecosmos.eu/ www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Education & Outreach Activities Local Demonstrations and training workshops in schools and teacher training centres eScience school-based activities National Training/Demonstrations and e-Masterclasses (e.g. IPPOG ) Contests for secondary school teachers/students International Contests for teachers/students Training seminars (e.g. winter/summer schools) Masterclasses/e-Masterclasses Annual Conferences www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Activities: Example 1 Physics Teacher Training Workshop Germany, Mar 17, 2012 Lectures from active scientists Measurements on real data from LHC experiments Discussions with scientists and teaching colleagues Presentation of the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt (German network for students /teachers in PP) Presentation of resources usable in classroom www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Activities: Examples ATLAS Virtual Visits Greece, Apr 04, 2012 Lectures about ATLAS experiment at LHC at CERN Mini Masterclass with HYPATIA Preview of CERN Mini Expo in Greece Virtual Visit to ATLAS Control Room www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Activities: Example 2 ATLAS Virtual Visits Birmingham, Mar 28, 2012 Lectures about LHC experiments at CERN Masterclass with MINERVA Q&A sessions (small groups) Virtual Visit to ATLAS Control Room www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Activities: Example 3 The CERN Mini Expo Tour Greece, Nov 2011 Jun 2012 7 cities; > 25k visitors (inc. >17k students) 12 training workshops for >800 teachers IPPOG Masterclasses for students and Virtual Visits www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Activities: Example 4 Discover the Cosmos Summer School Crete, Jul 01-06, 2012 15h of lectures/demonstrations 10h hands-on workshops Facilitate teachers/trainers to integrate educational resources of science centres to the science curriculum www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Activities: Example 5 High School Teachers Programme at CERN Geneva, Jul 01-21, 2012 Physics teachers from member & non-member states 2-day Hands-On Workshop Creation of inquiry-based educational scenarios in HEP using eScience tools from LHC experiments www.discoverthecosmos.eu

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Next Steps Now DtC Demonstrators/Scenarios Cutting edge science exercises combining eScience tools with IBSE ~15 demonstrators completed and ready for pilot testing locally, nationally and internationally Practice Reflection Workshops 4 per country Build scenarios addressing outcomes of visionary workshops Adaptation of selected eScience tools/resources to science curriculum Sep12 Feb13 Summative Workshops 1 per country Whole DtC Community involved Roadmap Document produced Apr13 Aug13

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Thank You! Peter Watkins pmw@hep.ph.bham.ac.uk www.discoverthecosmos.eu Find us on Facebook

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Back up Slides

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Results of Visionary Workshops (1)

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Results of Visionary Workshops (2)